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Job 38:25-41

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25 Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain[a] or clears the way for lightning,
26 to bring rain on an uninhabited land, [on] a desert with no human life,[b]
27 to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout?[c]
28 Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the drops of dew?[d]
29 Whose womb did the ice come from? Who gave birth to the frost of heaven[e]
30 when water becomes as hard as stone,[f] and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?
31 Can you fasten the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion?
32 Can you bring out the constellations[g] in their season and lead the Bear[h] and her cubs?[i]
33 Do you know the laws of heaven? Can you impose its[j] authority on earth?[k]
34 Can you command[l] the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?[m]
35 Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?[n] Do they report to you: "Here we are"?
36 Who put wisdom in the heart[o] or gave the mind understanding?[p]
37 Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven
38 when the dust hardens like cast metal[q] and the clods [of dirt] stick together?
39 Can you hunt prey for a lioness or satisfy the appetite of young lions
40 when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait within their lairs?[r]
41 Who provides the raven's food[s] when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
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Job 38:25-41 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 38

In this chapter the Lord takes up the controversy with Job; calls upon him to prepare to engage with him in it, and demands an answer to posing questions he puts to him, concerning the earth and the fabric of it, Job 38:1-7; concerning the sea, compared to an infant in embryo, at its birth, in its swaddling bands and cradle, Job 38:8-11; concerning the morning light, its spread and influence, Job 38:12-15; concerning the springs of the sea, the dark parts of the earth, the place both of light and darkness, Job 38:16-21; concerning the various meteors, snow, hail, rain, thunder, lightning, and the influences of the stars, Job 38:22-38; and concerning provision for lions and ravens, Job 38:40,41.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Footnotes 19

  • [a] Ps 32:6; Nah 1:8
  • [b] Lit life in it
  • [c] Gn 1:11-12; 2 Sm 23:4
  • [d] Jb 5:10; Dt 11:14; Ps 147:8
  • [e] Jb 37:10
  • [f] Lit water hides itself as the stone
  • [g] Or Mazzaroth; Hb obscure
  • [h] Or lead Aldebaran
  • [i] Jb 9:9; Isa 40:26; Am 5:8
  • [j] Or God's
  • [k] Jr 31:35; 33:25
  • [l] Lit lift up your voice to
  • [m] Jb 22:11
  • [n] Ex 19:16; Ps 18:14; 97:4
  • [o] Or the inner self; Ps 51:6
  • [p] Jb 28:12,20; Pr 9:10; Isa 11:2
  • [q] Dt 28:23
  • [r] Jb 37:8; Ezk 19:2; Nah 2:11-12
  • [s] 1 Kg 17:4,6
Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

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